Adam Ruins the Hospital

Adam Conover / Sunday, July 23, 2017, 10:00pm

Not feeling well? In this episode, Adam diagnoses how arbitrarily inflated hospital costs have created a system that’s entirely unaffordable and unfair, reveals why antibiotics are worthless and explains why mammograms might not be as helpful as we think. Here are his sources.

Sources

"Oh, American health care isn’t the best in the world. But despite that we spend more per person annually on health care than any other developed nation."

"The American Cancer Society, the US Preventive Services Task Force, and the American College of Physicians have all recommended getting mammogram screenings less frequently and beginning them later in life."